By: Angel Trinidad In a fantasy world of ninjas and supernatural creatures, a wicked demon fox with enormous power and fury wreaked havoc on the ancient Hidden Leaf Village, causing much destruction and taking countless lives. Finally, the strongest ninja in Hidden Leaf, the Fourth Hokage, managed to defeat the fox by sealing its soul inside a human boy. That boy, Naruto Uzumaki, later came to live in Hidden Leaf Village, but was shunned by almost everyone there because they feared the soul of the evil fox within him. Because of the neglect and oppression he faced, Naruto grew up to be an extremely mischievous and attention-craving trouble maker. But there was at least one person who saw that Naruto had a good side to him too, and that was Iruka-sensei, one of the instructors at the ninja school in Hidden Leaf. Becoming a skilled ninja was something that almost everyone in all of the many different ninja villages in the land wanted, including Naruto. However, it wasn't until he put his life on the line to help Iruka, was Naruto able to prove himself worthy of entering the ninja school. Naruto believes that becoming a great ninja may be the only way to get the people of the village to accept him and acknowledge the fact that he is a human being worthy of love and attention. Naruto makes it his goal to become Hidden Leaf Village's next Hokage(highest ranking ninja and leader of the village.) However, the path to becoming a skilled ninja is not an easy one. After gaining entrance to the ninja school, Naruto is teamed up with Sasuke, an unfriendly but strong and noble boy from the powerful Uchiha clan, and Sakura, a serious but sometimes flustered girl with a major crush on Sasuke. Together with their calm and capable teacher Kakashi, Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura, join many other ninja students from all over the land, some good and some bad, some with wicked ulterior motives, others just wanting to prove themselves strong, in the long and difficult path of becoming a powerful ninja. The competition is fierce and many of the tests that the students have to face put their very lives in danger. But in spite of the pain, hardships, and losses that Naruto and the others face, their determination to become strong helps them learn more about themselves and each other, and prepares them for the many more difficult battles that lie ahead on the road to becoming the strongest ninja! (Naruto Story Synopsis)
Naruto is a japanese anime that contains various philosophies. The one I will concentrate on is moral philosophy called ethics. This anime contains alot on morals because there is alot of death between the many ninja villages and all good ninjas are trying to find "the" answer to peace especially Naruto. Here is a few videos that show good high class ninjas who perished trying to protect their people and villages from other evil high class powerful ninjas.
These videos show examples of "Utilitarinism". How? These two ninjas that perished named Asuma and Jiraiya sacrificed themselves to protect the greater numbers in the world. Asuma's father, Hiruzen Sarutobi, the third Hokage of the hidden leaf village of fire, committed the same actions sacrificing himself to kill a missing-nin ninja named Orochimaru who had a plan to destroy the village of leaf. Jiraiya died fighting an akatsuki member named "Pain" who was the leader of the Akatsuki clan. Philosophers thoughts Immanual Kant: according to Kant, these acts of utilitarianism are done out of duty(good will), rather than desire or self gain. Aristotle: he would say that these two ninjas have the unity of virtues which is a virtue that gives all virtues such as loyalty, compassion, trust, and others that caused them to sacrifice themselves for the young to prosper. Also, what is the good life? According to Aristotle, to be happy. And according to Aristotle, achieving happiness is through our virtuous behavior. Happiness and peace is what all good ninjas seek in this story. To seek true happiness, these ninjas try different ways to achieve that such as the sacrifice you have seen in the videos. Even the evil character Pain had his own motive and defintion of peace although he had a plan of destroying Konoha the hidden leaf village. Pain was from the hidden rain village and seeked revenge on the leaf ninjas who brought pain to Pain's village. Pain really wasn't an evil ninja, just wanted to bring peace and happiness using pain as he put it to control all but Naruto knocked sense into him making Pain an ally after he died. Work Cited "Naruto Story Synopsis." Enter Anime Yume. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 May 2011.
In a fantasy world of ninjas and supernatural creatures, a wicked demon fox with enormous power and fury wreaked havoc on the ancient Hidden Leaf Village, causing much destruction and taking countless lives. Finally, the strongest ninja in Hidden Leaf, the Fourth Hokage, managed to defeat the fox by sealing its soul inside a human boy. That boy, Naruto Uzumaki, later came to live in Hidden Leaf Village, but was shunned by almost everyone there because they feared the soul of the evil fox within him. Because of the neglect and oppression he faced, Naruto grew up to be an extremely mischievous and attention-craving trouble maker. But there was at least one person who saw that Naruto had a good side to him too, and that was Iruka-sensei, one of the instructors at the ninja school in Hidden Leaf. Becoming a skilled ninja was something that almost everyone in all of the many different ninja villages in the land wanted, including Naruto. However, it wasn't until he put his life on the line to help Iruka, was Naruto able to prove himself worthy of entering the ninja school. Naruto believes that becoming a great ninja may be the only way to get the people of the village to accept him and acknowledge the fact that he is a human being worthy of love and attention. Naruto makes it his goal to become Hidden Leaf Village's next Hokage(highest ranking ninja and leader of the village.) However, the path to becoming a skilled ninja is not an easy one. After gaining entrance to the ninja school, Naruto is teamed up with Sasuke, an unfriendly but strong and noble boy from the powerful Uchiha clan, and Sakura, a serious but sometimes flustered girl with a major crush on Sasuke. Together with their calm and capable teacher Kakashi, Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura, join many other ninja students from all over the land, some good and some bad, some with wicked ulterior motives, others just wanting to prove themselves strong, in the long and difficult path of becoming a powerful ninja. The competition is fierce and many of the tests that the students have to face put their very lives in danger. But in spite of the pain, hardships, and losses that Naruto and the others face, their determination to become strong helps them learn more about themselves and each other, and prepares them for the many more difficult battles that lie ahead on the road to becoming the strongest ninja! (Naruto Story Synopsis)
Naruto is a japanese anime that contains various philosophies. The one I will concentrate on is moral philosophy called ethics. This anime contains alot on morals because there is alot of death between the many ninja villages and all good ninjas are trying to find "the" answer to peace especially Naruto. Here is a few videos that show good high class ninjas who perished trying to protect their people and villages from other evil high class powerful ninjas.
These videos show examples of "Utilitarinism". How? These two ninjas that perished named Asuma and Jiraiya sacrificed themselves to protect the greater numbers in the world. Asuma's father, Hiruzen Sarutobi, the third Hokage of the hidden leaf village of fire, committed the same actions sacrificing himself to kill a missing-nin ninja named Orochimaru who had a plan to destroy the village of leaf. Jiraiya died fighting an akatsuki member named "Pain" who was the leader of the Akatsuki clan.
Philosophers thoughts
Immanual Kant: according to Kant, these acts of utilitarianism are done out of duty(good will), rather than desire or self gain.
Aristotle: he would say that these two ninjas have the unity of virtues which is a virtue that gives all virtues such as loyalty, compassion, trust, and others that caused them to sacrifice themselves for the young to prosper. Also, what is the good life? According to Aristotle, to be happy. And according to Aristotle, achieving happiness is through our virtuous behavior. Happiness and peace is what all good ninjas seek in this story. To seek true happiness, these ninjas try different ways to achieve that such as the sacrifice you have seen in the videos. Even the evil character Pain had his own motive and defintion of peace although he had a plan of destroying Konoha the hidden leaf village. Pain was from the hidden rain village and seeked revenge on the leaf ninjas who brought pain to Pain's village. Pain really wasn't an evil ninja, just wanted to bring peace and happiness using pain as he put it to control all but Naruto knocked sense into him making Pain an ally after he died.
Work Cited
"Naruto Story Synopsis." Enter Anime Yume. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 May 2011.